- What's Wrong with the Girls? – …we tell girls to be "strong." As if girls can just be brought up in a patriarchy and expected to spontaneously free themselves from its stranglehold.
Why do we expect that of girls, but not of boys? If you're arguing that it's perfectly logical that boys should condone violence against women, then you're essentially just arguing that boys are socialized by their culture. And if you're arguing that it's consternatingly inexplicable that girls should condone violence against women, then you're essentially arguing that girls should be magically resistant to their socialization. That's fair.
Where have we gone wrong with girls? The same place we've gone wrong with boys: Not providing them alternative narratives, that's where. It doesn't do girls any fucking good if we just throw up our hands and say, "Well, of course boys excuse rape and violence against women," and take that as read, so we can move on and wonder what's wrong with the girls. Talk about victim-blaming. [...]
Where have we gone wrong with girls? By treating as a plague the antidote to what ails them. By pretending we want them to live their lives in a way only womanism/feminism can allow them, but withholding the tools at every fucking turn.
This article [about teen acceptance of domestic violence] was filed in the Fasion & Style section of the New York Times.
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- Bush’s post-prez debut in Canada draws protests – " ”I actually paid for a house last fall. I think I’m the only American to have bought a house in the fall of 2008,” [Bush] joked. "
- The Lack Of Faceless Overlords Is Comforting – So, today, I get a bill for the appendectomy I had this summer from the hospital – a little over $16,000. If it’s not paid in fourteen days, it’ll go to collections. (Keep in mind that my yearly budget, courtesy of the law school, is a little over $15,000.)
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